Jubilee Records Billy Gray My Fairfax Lady lp, 1962,SHRINK,CLASSIC BURLESQUE
$
29
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
MY FAIRFAX LADY
(Jubilee)
While we have Forbidden Broadway to skewer the musicals of today, it's hard to imagine a musical that would inspire two full-length LP satires. But then My Fair Lady was not your ordinary garden-variety hit, but an earthshaker. Produced, written and directed by Sid Kuller, My Fairfax Lady spoofed the show by resetting it on Fairfax Avenue, a Jewish delicatessen area which at the time also housed the offices of CBS (the company that bankrolled Fair Lady). My Fairfax Lady actually played a theatre on Fairfax in 1957, and the Jubilee LP (in "superlaphonic hi-fi") is the cast album of that production. British ingenue Liza Doowhittle (Carol Shannon in a nice take-off on Julie Andrews) explains to Col. Dill Pickeling (Bert Gordon) that she was brought over by Noel Coward to appear on his CBS telecast of Blithe Spirit, but is now stranded on Fairfax ("a street with a heart, and the heart has a burn," as the Kirby Stone Four sing in the opening number), unable to blend with the natives. Pickeling brings her to see the Professor (Billy Gray, a Yiddish dialect comedian), who will coach her so her speech conforms to that heard in the neighborhood. Unlike most of the Forbidden Broadway spoofs, the songs here don't use the actual Frederick Loewe music, but employ close paraphrases (you can hear how the lyric "Indigestion comes/ But I carry Tums/ When I walk on the street where you eat" sits).
Cover: VG+ (Original Shrinkwrap, has a bb size hole on the lower left corner, please use your feature to see it better, Thank You)
Vinyl: Side 1, VG+ Side 2, Excellent (Side 1 has an approximately 3/4" non-feeable scuff, definitely not a scratch, that did not affect play in any way on my two turntables)
< Yes, I'll be happy to ship this lp International, please email me before bidding for your country's shipping rate, Thank You! >
*** I ship all the record albums I sell in "real" album boxes, never just "flimsy paper" or "cut-out cardboard," from me! Please email me with any questions and I'll get back to you right away! Thanks for looking at my auction! ***
price rating
